The folk songs of North America, in the English language. Melodies and guitar chords transcribed by Peggy Seeger, with one hundred piano arrangements by Matyas Seiber and Don Banks. Illustrated by Michael Leonard. Editorial assistant, Shirley Collins.

Discography: p. 608-615.

Bibliography: p. 597-600.

WAR, NEWBERY,

All for the men -- All night long -- Am I born to die? -- Another man done gone -- Around a western watertank -- As I roved out -- Aunt Sal's song -- Avondale mine disaster -- Bad girl -- Banks of Newfoundland -- Barbara Allen -- Battle on Shilloh's Hill -- Big Rock Candy Mountain -- Bile them cabbage down -- Billy Broke locks -- Billy the Kid -- Black, brown and white blues -- Black gal -- Black is the colour -- Black sheep -- Blind man -- Blood red roses -- Blow the candle out -- Blue -- Blue -- Blue tail fly -- Bold Jack Donahue -- Boll Weevil Holler -- Brass mounted army -- Brave wolfe -- Bring me li'l water, Sylvie -- Buck-eye rabbit -- Buffalo boy -- Bullgine run -- Canada-i-o -- Can't you line it? -- Cape Ann -- Cape Cod girls -- Captain Kidd I & II -- Careless love -- Casey Jones -- Charles Guiteau -- Charlie Quantrell -- Chickens they are crowin' -- Cindy -- Cock Robin -- Cole Younger -- Colorado Trail -- Come life, shaker life -- Corinna -- Cotton Mill Colic -- Cotton needs pickin' -- Cowboy's life -- Cripple creek -- Cuckoo -- Cumberland gap -- Dark as a dungeon -- Death, ain't you got no shame? -- Deer chase -- Dese bones gwine rise again -- Devilish Mary -- Devil's nine questions -- Didn't it rain -- Dig a hole in the meadow -- Doney gal -- Don't lie, buddy -- Down in the valley -- Down on Penney's farm -- Downward road -- Dreary Black Hills -- Drill, ye tarriers -- Dying cowboy -- East Colorado blues -- Edward -- El-a-noy -- Fair and tender ladies -- Fair beauty bride -- Farmer and the shanty boy -- Farmer is the man -- Farmer's curst wife -- Feather grumble -- Felix the soldier -- Fiddle-I-fee -- Fish of the sea -- Fod -- Foggy Dew -- Fourth Day of July -- Frankie -- Frozen logger -- Gamblin' suitor -- Gentle fair Jenny -- Get up, Jack -- Girl I left behind (Ballad) -- Go down, old Hannah -- Go on, you little dogies -- Golden Vanity -- Good mornin', blues -- Good old rebel -- Great big sea -- Green grows the laurel -- Greenland whale fishery -- Groundhog -- Hard, ain't it hard -- Hard times -- Hard travellin' -- Hattie Belle -- Hell-bound train -- Hog drovers -- Hold the wind -- Holy baby -- Horse named Bill -- Horse trader's song -- Hound dawg song -- House carpenter -- Housewife's lament -- How long blues -- How old are you, my pretty little miss? -- Hudson River steamboat -- Hurrah, lie! -- I couldn't hear nobody pray -- I don't want your millions, mister -- I got to roll -- I never will marry -- I'll give my love an apple -- I'm a-leavin' Cheyenne -- I'm all out an' down -- I'm bound to follow the longhorn cows -- I'm goin' away to Texas -- I'm troubled -- In good old colony times -- In Kansas -- In the days of '76 -- In the wilderness -- Irene -- It makes a long-time man feel bad -- I'ze the bye -- Jacob's ladder -- Jerry, go an' ile that car -- Jesse James -- Joe Bowers -- John B's sails -- John Gilbert is de boat -- John Hardy -- John Henry -- John Riley -- John the Revelator -- Johnny has gone for a soldier -- Johnny, won't you ramble? -- Johnson boys -- Jubilee -- Julie Plante -- Jumpin' Judy -- Kangaro -- Keep a-inchin' along -- Kickin' mule -- Knock John Booker -- Lady Gay -- Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight -- Let the deal go down -- Let's go a-hunting -- Lily Munroe -- Lincoln and liberty -- Little Brown Bulls -- Little John Henry -- Little Matthy groves -- Little old sod shanty -- Lone green valley -- Long John -- Long time ago -- Longest train -- Lord Lovel -- Lousy miner -- Love is pleasin' -- Lovely Ohio -- Lovin' Hannah -- Lulu -- Lynchburg Town -- Maid on the shore -- Many thousands gone -- Mary Ann -- Mary L. Mackay -- Me father's a lawyer -- Miss Mary Jane -- Mister Mackinley -- Moonshiner -- Moosehead Lake -- Mule skinner blues -- My last ole dollar -- My love is a rider -- My sweetheart's a mule in the mines -- Night herding song -- O David -- Old ark's a-moverin' -- Old bangum -- Old Chisholm trail -- Old man's lament -- Old marse John -- Old smokey -- Oleana -- Omie Wise -- On my journey home -- On the trail to Mexico -- One Dime Blues. Paw-paw patch -- Pay day -- Pay me -- Peg an' awl -- Pie in the sky -- Pinery boy -- Po' farmer -- Po' lazarus -- Pretty Boy Floyd -- Put the old man to sleep -- Quaker's courtship -- Queen's gardeen -- Railroad Bill -- Railroad corral -- Railroader for me -- Ramblin' boy -- Rattlesnake -- Red iron ore -- Red River shore -- Regular army-o -- Reuben -- Rich old lady -- Ridin;' in a buggy -- Riley -- Rise up, shepherd -- Rising sun blues -- River in the pines -- Robin Hood and Arthur O'Bland -- Rock about, my Saro Jane -- Roll, Jordan, roll (Negro & White version) -- Roll on, Buddy -- Roll on, Columbia -- Root, hog, or die -- Rose Connelly -- Row, Bullies, row -- Run along, you little dogies -- Sailing in the boat -- Sailor cut down in his prime -- Sally Anne -- Sally Brown -- Sally Goodin -- Samson -- Santy Anno -- Satan's kingdom -- Saturday night -- Seven blessings of Mary -- Shady grove -- Shaker Funeral hymn -- She'll be comin' around the mountain -- Shenandoah -- Shortenin' bread -- Silver Jack -- Single girl -- Sixteen tons -- Soon I will be done -- Sorghum syrup -- Sound off -- Sow took the measles -- Springfield mountain -- Springfield mountain (Texas version) -- Stagolee -- Stand to your glasses -- State of Arkansas -- Steal, Miss Liza -- Strawberry lane -- Sweet Betsy -- Talkin' blues -- Talkin' Columbia -- Talkin' dustbowl blues -- Texas rangers -- This train -- Three young ladies -- Tideo -- Tom Dula -- Troubled in mind -- Turkey in the straw -- Twelve days of Christmas -- Two sisters -- Tyin' a knot in the devil's tail -- Twistification -- Uh-huh-no -- Uncle Joe -- Virginia's bloody soil -- Wabash Cannon ball -- Wade in the water -- Wagoner's lad -- Wake up, Jacob -- Wand'rin' -- Wars of America -- Way over in the heavens -- Weeping Mary -- We're coming, Arkansas -- When a man's in love -- When I was a cowboy -- When I'm gone -- When Johnny comes marching home -- When the saints go marchin' in -- When the stars begin to fall -- Whisky in the jar -- Whistle, daughter, whistle -- Whoa back, buck -- Whoa! Ha! Buck and Jerry Boy -- Who's gonna shoe your pretty little feet? -- Wicked Polly -- Wild Bill Jones -- Wild rippling water -- Willie the weeper -- Winter's night -- Yankee doodle dandy-o -- You cain' lose-a me, Cholly -- Young Charlotte.